Join the SLS & MATESOL Programs in the annual SLS Spring Symposium! Invited guest speakers are Dr. Kara Morgan-Short from the University of Illinois, Chicago, and Dr. Carrie Symons from the College of Education at[...]

The primary activity at this event will be low-stakes, open house-style Table Presentations with “lightning talks” focusing specifically on Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) and ed tech tools and practices more generally. MSU’s Center for Language[...]

The Panamanian Culture Festival will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, February 26th in the Wells Hall atrium. There will be 5 tables for presentations and food. We encourage Spanish language students and other[...]

2/28 Blackboards (Samira Makhmalbaf, 2000) Presented by Kaveh Askari Itinerant Kurdish teachers Said (Said Mohamadi) and Reeboir (Bahman Ghobadi) find many uses for the blackboards they tote, some of which actually pertain to education. Others include doubling[...]

3/14 Fame (Alan Parker, 1980) Presented by Ling Hsu Young men and women audition for coveted spots at the New York High School of Performing Arts. Those who make the cut discover that it takes a lot[...]

3/21 Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1977) Presented by Joshua Lam Suzy (Jessica Harper) travels to Germany to attend ballet school. When she arrives, late on a stormy night, no one lets her in, and she sees Pat (Eva[...]

3/28 Young Törless (Volker Schlöndorff, 1966) Presented by Matthew Handelman At a boarding school in 1900s Austria, cruel bullies Beineberg (Bernd Tischer) and Reiting (Fred Dietz) go to great lengths to embarrass, abuse and dehumanize their pathetic[...]

4/4 The First Teacher (Andrei Konchalovsky, 1965) Presented by Yelena Kalinsky Diuishen, a recently demobilized Red Army soldier, is determined to spread the international proletarian revolution to the most backwards corners of Soviet Central Asia. Altynai, an[...]

4/11 Native Land (Leo Hurwitz and Paul Strand, 1942) with Workers Film and Photo League shorts Presented by McKayla Sluga After breaking with the Film and Photo League and converting Nykino into Frontier Films, Leo Hurwitz and[...]

4/18 Clueless (Amy Heckerling, 1995) Presented by Mikki Kressbach Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher (Alicia Silverstone) is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school’s pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes[...]